Poetry. Beginning with Generic Whistle Stop, a long poem that rings myriad changes on political rhetoric, PEACE CONFERENCE goes on to extend such poetic series from prior books as the linguistically hybrid Yinglish Strophes, the rocking/rolling Dented Reprise, and Nonce Sonnet. Thomas Fink's seventh collection also initiates two new series, Goad and Dusk Bowl Intimacies, which, in different ways, force bits of individual psyche to butt heads with the social. The curvilinear twists and torques of many of these poems enable visual and verbal gestures to swing together and apart.